Travel Blogs from Tingri

... and the air-conditioning in our room no longer worked! Our third day was the longest drive being about 4 hours to New Tingri where we passed through more military and passport checks. We stopped for lunch and bought our permits which allowed us entry ...

The energy of this monstrous peak must have been too much for me, as I and many of my bunk mates couldn't sleep the night before going to Base Camp. We weren't the only ones. I couldn't find my earplugs fast enough when a pack of it sounded like 100 ...